Looking to ensure Florida remains in the Democratic column come November, Hillary Clinton is sending her running mate to campaign in the Sunshine State later this week.
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Kaine seized on what he called a “king of debt” tax shelter during a pair of appearances here in Nevada, a battleground state, keying off news reports last week about a little-noticed aspect of Trump’s emerging tax plan.
To boost stagnant wage growth, Clinton and Kaine said small businesses are the linchpin.
Still, the private hour-long event at Primus Aerospace in Lakewood served to showcase the problems facing today’s businesses. “He refused to pay them for the work they’d already done not because he couldn’t pay them, but because he chose not to pay them”, the 68-year-old former secretary of state said yesterday in a tele-town hall with small business owners.
Opening the rally, Anderson, a military veteran, juxtaposed Kaine’s son, who is a Marine, with Trump and the remarks Trump has made about the Khan family, whose son died serving in the US military in Iraq in 2004. While Clinton promoted the agreement dozens of times as secretary of state, she has since said she can not support its current form.
“Tim and his family are everything Donald Trump is not”, Anderson said.
Last month, the Clinton campaign brought in $52 million in donations.
“As a restaurant owner I also need a president who can keep our economy strong because when our economy is strong, our customers keep coming back”, Dougan said. Kaine brought his father, Al Kaine, who owned a union-organized ironworking and welding shop in the Kansas City area. The small business tour is closed to the public.
He also criticized Trump’s resistance to efforts by employees to unionize at the Republican’s Las Vegas hotel.
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“Donald Trump sees labor unions not as a positive force in workers’ lives but as an obstacle standing in his way”, Kaine said. “He owes a fortune to institutions at home and overseas”, Kaine added.
